Memorable Dates

[bunn]

It's really annoying when you have to choose a 'memorable date' and the only options are in the 20th and 21st centuries.   I don't find those centuries particularly Memorable (as opposed to memorable, which is quite different) and I can never remember dates to the day of the month anyway, because I long ago decided that trying to remember and work

Comments

[carmarthen]

Hmm, I wonder if the Gregorian/Julian thing could explain the date discrepancy for the wreck of the White Ship in Witch's Brat...I'm not sure it could, though.

[bunn]

ISTR that the discrepancy is long enough to cause headscratching but I think you said that the White Ship thing was the wrong *year* which seems a bit long to be a calendar glitch?

Though as I say, I long ago decided to put the the whole calendar thing on the Too Difficult pile so I could be wrong.

[carmarthen]

About a year and a month. Yeah, I think I looked into the calendar thing and discarded it as a possible explanation. I don't know much about the period, though!

[kargicq]

I always think it must have been a nightmare in the German states, when Protestants used one calendar and Catholics another.

[ozisim]

*tilts head*
why wouldn't you just put in 24/08/0079?

[bunn]

I spose you could try it, but I suspect either the validation won't accept it, or a dropdown won't offer zero as an option for the millennium.

[inamac]

I have come across a PIN number that, by sheer chance, was a Memorable Date in the 19th century.

Though given that there are only two Memorable Dates in the whole of British History (and those devoid of day and month), I can see your problem.